Saluki Pride: Stacy Thompson serves SIU and the region in many ways
Stacy Thompson wears many hats as professor and associate dean of undergraduate studies and curriculum for the School of Education, and does so admirably, colleagues say.
Saluki Pride: Leslie Duram wins a Teaching Excellence Award
Leslie Duram, professor in the School of Earth Systems and Sustainability, is this year’s winner of the university-level Teaching Excellence Award (Tenured/Tenure Track) at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Saluki Pride: Sabrina Nilufar wins SIU’s Early Career Faculty Excellence Award
Sabrina Nilufar, assistant professor in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Materials Engineering, is this year’s recipient of the university-level Early Career Faculty Excellence Award at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Saluki Pride: Jennifer Phillips receives SIU’s Women of Distinction Award
Jennifer Phillips, director of New Student Programs, is a double alumna of SIU, and in her nearly four years as a staff member, she has already made quite an impression on colleagues and the student families she works with.
Saluki Pride: Bethany Peppers wins SIU’s Emerging Leader Award
Bethany Peppers, assistant director of Student Involvement and Leadership for the Office of Student Engagement, has worked at SIU for only a couple of years, but her connection to the university goes back much longer, and she’s already setting herself apart as a leader
Painter, art educator earn SIU’s prominent Rickert-Ziebold Trust Award
Emma Metz, a senior in painting, and Lacie Schneider, a December 2022 art education graduate, earned the 2023 Rickert-Ziebold Trust Award from Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s School of Art and Design.
SIU Moot Court team captures national child welfare/adoption law title
Working together and knowing one another’s strengths is critical to success in any team activity, even apart from sports, as Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s School of Law moot court team knows well.
Saluki Pride: Melissa Viernow wears many hats to assure success for CDL and early childhood programs
As the director of Southern Region Early Childhood programs and the Child Development Lab (CDL) and senior lecturer for SIU’s School of Education, Melissa Viernow is constantly multi-tasking and stepping in to do whatever is needed and her dedication and drive assure the programs succeed, her colleagues say.
SIU food nerd and dietitian advise resolving to cook at home more in the new year
Two Southern Illinois University Carbondale professors have advice on how to keep the popular New Year’s resolutions of eating healthier, losing weight, starting a new hobby and spending more time with family: cook at home.
Saluki Pride: Haibo Wang teaches, researches integrated circuits, sensor data
From a homemade crystal radio receiver built as a child to a professor at a top university, Haibo Wang has always been about capturing electrons and making them behave.